Not a “Dan in Real Life” Christmas

When I imagine Christmas, it’s full of people. People talking in small groups. People snacking. People watching TV. Lots and lots of people. That’s odd because I come from a family of four (while my grandparents are still alive and I have myriad cousins...

Not a "Dan in Real Life" Christmas

When I imagine Christmas, it’s full of people. People talking in small groups. People snacking. People watching TV. Lots and lots of people. That’s odd because I come from a family of four (while my grandparents are still alive and I have myriad cousins...

Stories

There’s something that happens to a person when s/he starts to really talk from their spirit. Her face softens; her speech becomes more casual, more genuine; her stories roll out one after the other. Tonight, my dad’s friend Jim started talking about his...

Glass Jars

Today, my grandfather gave me three boxes of glass jars that he had been saving for Mom to can vegetables in. He said he had forgotten to give them to her and me the last two times we were up. Now, he wanted me to take them, and I gladly did. They were jars from...